Written by Joshua Bixby

The most popular posts of 2012 covered sexy topics like page growth, business metrics, rogue third-party content, and the psychology of web performance, as well as “Performance 101” type pieces about latency and terminology.

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In this week’s podcast, I’m talking to Cliff Crocker of SOASTA and Buddy Brewer of LogNormal about real user measurement (RUM), Big Data, and how to take a startup from bootstrap to acquisition in just one year.

It wouldn’t be December without a batch of audacious predictions for the new year. assuming we all survive past December 21st, here’s what I think 2013 will hold for site owners, mobile users, CIOs/CTOs, RUM vendors, and the browser wars.

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I’m very excited to announce the launch of a project that’s been in the idea phase for more than a year, and actively in the works for the past couple of months: the Web Performance Today podcast. It seems only fitting that we launch the series with interviews with Patrick Meenan and Stephen Thair.

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Here’s a fun set of infographics we just created, which were triggered by Shop.org’s statement that online shoppers could spend $96 billion this holiday season. We did some digging to find out what these numbers mean. (As you might expect, there’s a performance angle in here, too.)

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When I wrote about page bloat for GigaOM last May, I projected that, at the then-current rate of growth, the average page would hit 2 MB in 2015. Based on this new finding, we need to upgrade that prediction to early 2014.